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Letters Patent No. 69,494, dated October 1, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN GATES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SERVIss, of Sidney, in the county of Shelby,and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful improvements inGates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, making a portion of this specification, in which- Figure 1 isa front view of a gate constructed according to my invention.

Figure 2 iso. plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is a detached section of a portion of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

The object of this invention is to secure a gate which, as ordinarilyused, will permit the free passage through it of foot-passengers, butprevent that of horses'and cattle; and it consists in a hinged gate, socombined with a partially-enclosed space, or partial enclosure adjacentthereto, that when the gate is in one position a person maypass into theaforesaid enclosure from one side of the gate, and when the same is inanother position may pass out from the enclosure upon the opposite sideof such gate, thus effectually securing the desired. object. Theinvention further consists in a latch or stop, in combination with thegate and the panelaround the aforesaid partial enclosure, whereby thegate may when desired be swung completely open, after the manner of anordinary gate, to permit horses, cattle, or other like animals, to passthrough the same.

To enable others to understand the nature and construction of myinvention I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

A represents the fence through which the gate is designed to afford apassage, andin line with which are the two gate-posts a and Z), to one,5, of which the gate B is hinged by suitable hinges, as shown more fullyat c, in fig. 2. C represents a post situated at a little distance fromthe post a, and which is so placed that when the gate is swung into theposition shown in red outline in fig. 2 the free or outer end thereofwill be brought close to the post O, as shown by the aforesaid redoutline, in figQ. Extending from a point, (I, of thcfence A, at a littledistance from the post a, to the post O, is a curved panel, D, whichpartially encloses a space or enclosure, E, which is thus left open onlyat one side, as shown in the figure just mentioned. Formed in one sideof the post 0 is a recess, e, inwhich is pivoted astud or latch, F, asrepresented more plainly in fig. 3, in such manner that the said latchmay be turned upward, wholly within the recess 0, into the positionshown in the said fig. 3, or be turned downward so as to project out atright angles to the post 0, as shown in the dotted outline in suchfigure, and also in fig. 2, the latch in this position serving as a stopto prevent the'gatc from being swung outward past the post 0. .The gatebeing, for instance, in the position shown in fig. 2, or, in otherwords, in line with the fence A, a person in passing through the somefrom the front side thereof will first push the gate into the positionshown in red outline, (the movement of the gatebeing limited by thelatch F, as hereinbefore set forth,) and then step into the spaceenclosed by the panel D and the adjacent portion of the frame A,whereupon the gate is swung back to its first position, past suchperson, who then passes out from the said space at the opposite side ofthe gate. In passing through from the rear or opposite side the personwould of course first enter the space orcnclosure just mentioned, and,swinging the gate back against the latch F5 pass out of such space atthe front of the gate, so that by this means a person or foot-passengermay easily pass from one side of the fence to the other; at thesatnetime that, inasmuch as the space or enclosure described -is notlarge enough to permit an ox, horse, or other like animal to enter thesame, it follows that the passage of such animal is effectuallyprevented. In case it should bodcsirod, for any reason, to permit thepassage of such animals the latch F is turned upward, within the recessa, as hcreinbefore set forth, and the gate, being swung .past the postO, is brought into a. position beside and parallel with the fence A,thus entirely enclosing the gateway between the posts a b.

What I claim my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the post C of the partial enclosure, relatively tothe posts a b, when provided with a hinged stop F, whereby the gate isretained between the points O a of the enclosure, or may be opened atpleasure, substantially as set forth.

\VILLIAM SERVISS.

Witnesses JAMES McOULLoL'un, SAMUEL MATHEns.

